Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-08-12

to the spot by means OF new pitch
plank on which he is sitting and which
will not permit him to move out of the
SUM-
Zone hundred years ago the tastes Of
our people were simple. Now il takes
so much simplicity to keep Congress
going that the people don't get a
chance at it. A century ago, common,
home made rum was the only relaxation
known to a plain but abstemious peo-
Pile. Now it takes man with a mighty
good memory to recall the names
of some Of the things he has drunk
when his wife asks him about it on
following morning. | claim to have a
good memory of names and things
generally, but if you want to get me
mixed up and have fun with me, you
can do it that way.
But fellow-citizens, how can we
best preserve the blessing of freedom
and fork it over unimpaired to our
children? How can we enhance the
blood-bought right which is inherent in
every human being, of the people, for
the people and by the people, where
tyrant foot hath never trod nor bigot
forged a chain, for TO look back from
our country's glorious natal day or
forward to a glorious, a happy and n
prosperous future with regard to purity
of the ballot and free speech. | say
for one we cannot do otherwise. pro
longed applause.)
Il would rather have my right hand
cleave to the roof of my mouth than to
utter a sentiment that | would regret,
but ] say that as people. as nation
or as an inalienable right which no
man can gainsay or successfully con-
trovert, not for political purposes, and
yet am often led 10 inquire whittier
are we drifting, not only as people
and as nation, but as country and
as a joint School District No. 6. where
we now stand and when we are paying
a school teacher this summer S22 a
month TO teach the children, little
prattling children, during the hot sum-
mer weather, how many feet of intes-
tines there are in the human body and
what is best to do for it? Last winter
we paid S34 per month to man who
opened the school with prayer and then
made picture of the digestive organs
on the black board. And still we
wonder that politics is corrupt!
Il tell you that the seeds of vice and
wickedness is often sowed at school in
tie minds of the young by teachers
who are paid large salary to do far
different. What do you think of man
who would open school house with
prayer and then converse freely about
the alimentary canalP Such n man
would lead life of the deepest infamy
if he had the least encouragement.
so l say, fellow-cit that we
must guard against the influences of
the public schools as q nation, for the
people, of the people and by the peo-
Pile. Education is often blessing in
disguise, but we should not pry into
things that the finite mind has no busi-
ness with. How much was Calico
ahead in the long run for going out of
his sphere? He was boycotted from
morning till night and died poor. Look
at Demosthenes. Look at Diogenes.
They pried into science. and both of
them was poor providers and have
since died. OF course their names are
frequently used in debating schools.
and some claim that this is big pay
for what they went through. but | say
give me housekeeping horse, the
bright smile of dear ones who are not
related to me in any way. the approval
of the admiring throng, large woolly
dog that will DO as tell him. mod
est little home and unlimited credit at
the store, aud | do not care how much
b. will have to use off from the dia-
meter of given grindstone for which
he paid an undivided oue-ffteenth.
II know that this is regarded "a
queer doctrine By what is allied our
more Advanced Thinkers, but say let
every man who pants for fame select
his own style of pant and 90 ahead l
bid him a most hearty godspeed and
hope he will DO well.
But what makes me mad is for a
man to come to me and dictate what ]
shall pant for. This is called intoler-
ance by people who can afford to use
words of that size. Intolerance is
thing that makes me tired Whether
it's religious political or social intoler-
apce, / dislike it very much. People
that think 1 will enjoy voting for
yaller dog that had been picked out
for me, or that I will be tickled to
death to indorse the religious dogmas
of an efiete monicky with my eyes shet,
don't know me. / say, let every man
rely solely on his own thinker, and
damned be he who first cries hold,